parasitism – Stepping Stones

Preface: Lest Triggered

As stated in the excerpt, the premise of this article is that the widely acclaimed 2025 horror movie Weapons is, primarily, an ‘antisemitic’* representation of the Jewish people and a political allegory about Israel’s influence on Palestine and the US. However, it is not a claim that Zack Cregger or anyone associated with the movie Weapons is antisemitic, nor am I interested in their actual views about the Jews or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This article is not purposed to criticise or defend groups or particular people but to excavate the most significant symbolism I’ve seen in Weapons that has been part missed and part wilfully ignored by mainstream and social media (at least as far as I’ve seen). Suffice it to say here that entertainment media – as with society and the world – is designed and directed from an orchestrating source above and behind the individuals who are accredited with creating it. Zack Cregger’s comments about the meanings of Weapons (some of which I quote in this article) happen to exemplify this principle: that artists are not the true authors of their works (which, like Cregger, they often hint having ‘channelled’) and aren’t even required to know the deepest meanings and functions of them.

Plagues and Peoples: a **historical** ***interpretation*** *by an **epidemiologically-learned** historian.**

**i.e. Pandemics **in perspective—**par excellence!*

As quoted by the Lancet behind the front cover of this book,

Professor McNeill is an American historian with a sound grasp of epidemiological principles.

As McNeill points out himself in this book (which can be seen immediately in the notes to follow), historians systematically gloss-over the significance of epidemic disease.

In choosing to read Plagues and Peoples third in my sequence of pandemic-themed books, I identified it as the one most complimentary to Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year: for while the latter is “the prototype of all accounts of great cities in times of epidemic”, the former has to be one of, if not the most substantial attempts at a historical interpretation of epidemics (—which is quite distinct from an epidemiological interpretation of history, I would add).

Tag: parasitism

Weapons (2025): A-Political Analysism | Film Analysis

Preface: Lest Triggered

Pandemics in Perspective: Plagues and Peoples, by William H. McNeill (1976) – Book Notes & Themes